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Mr. Simon Coombs
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will make a statement on his recent meetings with other European Community Finance Ministers.
Mr. Ryder
My right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer regularly meets his Community counterparts at the Council of Economic and Finance Ministers, the last meeting of which took place in Luxembourg on 23 April. My right hon. Friend made a statement in the House about the outcome on 25 April, Official Report, column 238.In addition, my right hon. Friend sees his European colleagues for bilateral discussion from time to time, most recently Sr Carli, the Italian Minister of Finance, on 30 April in Rome.